Thanks very much! Now I feel I have even more questions…
If the story happens in the far future of year 13291, as mentioned by the link above, I'd assume the people would understand the geography of their surroundings pretty well, no? Well, unless this is a post-apocalyptic fiction…
Also, at the beginning of the comic there is a quite lengthy depiction of the two main characters building sand castles, which appear at the end of comic. What does it imply?
~11,278 years is an extraordinarily long time in human terms. That's about how long it's been since the earliest stirrings of civilization. We've gone from the discovery of electrons to present-day technology in ~1.2% of that time.
A lot could happen in that time to reverse society to near-subsistence levels. Wars, climate change, major impact events.
It's also notable that we have only the faintest insight into anyone other than the two main characters, who are of indeterminate age, education, and experience. They might easily be teenagers. Go find a bunch of 16-year-olds of average intelligence in 2013. What do they really know about the world around them? If you ask them to name a sea which might be realistically drained and refilled, what will they say?
Now imagine their lives having been spent in 40-person village effectively knocked back a couple hundred years, focused on farming and fishing and just generally getting by.
Humanity might be aware of a great deal. These two might be aware of relatively little.
If the story happens in the far future of year 13291, as mentioned by the link above, I'd assume the people would understand the geography of their surroundings pretty well, no? Well, unless this is a post-apocalyptic fiction…
Also, at the beginning of the comic there is a quite lengthy depiction of the two main characters building sand castles, which appear at the end of comic. What does it imply?